Item Original Price Discount (Dollars) $20.00 Off 40% Off (Dollars) (Dollars) A music box $80 A faux Ming vase $60.00 Suppose a friend of yours wants to buy a crystal candlestick. You remember seeing this item at both Annie's Attic and Betty's Breakables, but you do not remember the price. What advice should you give your friend in this situation? Go to Betty's Breakables, if the price is below $50.00. Go to Annie's Attic, $20.00 off is always better than 40% off. Go to Betty's Breakables, if the price is above $50.00. Go to Annie's Attic, if the price is above $50.00 Go to Betty's Breakables, 40% off is always better than $20.00 off.

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?